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The Game Archaeologist and the Asheron Recall: The highlights

Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, MMO industry, The Game Archaeologist It's hard being the youngest child -- you get the hand-me-downs, suffer through swirlies by older siblings, and eventually...

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The Game Archaeologist and the Asheron Recall: Player sagas

Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Interviews, The Game Archaeologist It's an odd thing to realize how far MMOs have come right in front of our eyes in a relatively short span of time. After all,...

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The Game Archaeologist's chat with Andy Cataldo

Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Interviews, The Game Archaeologist There are only a handful of people in the world who can boast that they're working on an MMO that dates back to the '90s. As...

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The Game Archaeologist and the Asheron Recall: Fond memories

Filed under: Fantasy, Galleries, Asheron's Call, The Game Archaeologist Has October blown by already in a rush of leaves, wind and high-fructose corn syrup candies? Are we already staring down the grim...

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Asheron's Call rolls out December content update

Filed under: Fantasy, Galleries, Screenshots, Asheron's Call, Patches, News items Turbine may be the king of freemium themeparks these days, but once upon a time it actually developed sandbox MMORPGs....

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The Perfect Ten: Best non-traditional MMO fantasy races

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Dark Age of Camelot, Dungeons and Dragons Online, EverQuest II, Lord of the Rings Online, Ultima Online, Guild Wars 2, Humor, Allods Online,...

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Asheron's Call teases May event

Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Events, in-game, Patches While Asheron's Call players have a while yet to wait to get their hands on new playable races, Turbine has a bright shiny ray of good...

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MMObility: Fifty games for the mobile lifestyle

Filed under: Anarchy Online, Asheron's Call, Wurm Online, Opinion, Free-to-play, Browser, Casual, Free Realms, MMObility I like lists. Lists help keep my candy-coated brain functioning. I see so many...

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The Perfect Ten: Non-vanilla server rulesets

Filed under: Age of Conan, Asheron's Call, City of Heroes, Dark Age of Camelot, Darkfall, Dofus, EVE Online, EverQuest, EverQuest II, Fallen Earth, Lord of the Rings Online, Ultima Online, Vanguard,...

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Directing the devs for a day in Asheron's Call

Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, MMO industry, Patches, Sandbox Turbine may be best-known to modern MMO gamers for its F2P games Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online, but...

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The Game Archaeologist answers Asheron's Call 2: The highlights

Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Classes, Expansions, The Game Archaeologist MMO sequels are funny animals. Sequels (along with prequels and "reimaginings") are ingrained into the entertainment...

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The Game Archaeologist answers Asheron's Call 2: The fansite managers

Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Interviews, The Game Archaeologist, Post-Apocalyptic Back when I covered Asheron's Call for The Game Archaeologist, I got an impassioned email from a former...

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The Game Archaeologist answers Asheron's Call 2: The former dev

Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Expansions, MMO industry, The Game Archaeologist I've been a long-time follower of Eric Heimburg on his blog, Elder Game, where he and a friend have spent years...

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The Game Archaeologist answers Asheron's Call 2: The community

Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Culture, Opinion, The Game Archaeologist Time machines are expensive, and with gas the price it is today, it's not always viable to fuel up your DeLorean and...

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The Game Archaeologist salutes Asheron's Call's 12th anniversary

Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Events, real-world, Expansions, The Game Archaeologist Turning 12 is a wake-up call for most people because they realize that next year they will officially be...

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The Game Archaeologist seals up 2011

Filed under: A Tale in the Desert, Asheron's Call, Dark Age of Camelot, EverQuest, Lineage, Meridian 59, PlanetSide, Shadowbane, Everquest Online Adventures, The Game Archaeologist, Miscellaneous You...

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The Perfect Ten: Best MMO theme songs (part two)

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Asheron's Call, EverQuest, EverQuest II, Guild Wars, Sword of the New World, Star Trek Online, Ultima Online, Guild Wars 2, Humor, Runes of Magic, Allods Online, Perfect...

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Asheron's Call readies radical February revamp

Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Game mechanics, MMO industry, News items, Sandbox When you have an MMORPG that's well into its second decade, there's got to be a strong temptation to simply keep...

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Leaderboard: Ultima Online vs. EverQuest vs. Asheron's Call

Filed under: Polls, Asheron's Call, EverQuest, Culture, Opinion, Ultima Online, Miscellaneous, Leaderboard Back at the turn of the century, you didn't have the equivalent of cable's infinite choices...

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The Perfect Ten: Free-to-play holdouts

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Asheron's Call, Dark Age of Camelot, EVE Online, Final Fantasy XI, PlanetSide, Warhammer Online, Ultima Online, Free-to-play, Star Wars: The Old Republic, RIFT, Final...

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